Fareed Zakaria on the current Republican Shutdown.

Well then, so why is the good old USA, the “oldest democracy” hurtling toward the fissures that cause a FAILED STATE, ripened for a coup d’état? It is no hyperbole to identify all the symptoms of a coup d’état in the making, from the GOP hostage taking underway.

http://theobamadiary.com/2013/10/07/coup-detat-koch-brothers-are-warlords/